Archive for August 15th, 2011
Why Is Bill O’Reilly Not Calling Out Mike Huckabee’s Gangster Glorification? – Jeff Rosenthal
At the 7:00 mark of this video, Mike Huckabee, the former governor and current Bible-toting dinosaur apologist, picked up a bass and joined the band Nada under Tim Pawlenty’s tent. While standing in front of a crowd of Republican voters, at a family-friendly carnival that kids were dragged to, Mike Huckabee and Nada covered Johnny […]
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Riot and response: England’s violent August – Opinion – ABC Religion & Ethics (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
The problem is that the tacit control and sense of the common good based upon personal relationships upon which social order finally depends has started to break down in British inner cities, which are often fragmented into different racio-religious and cultural ghettoes. (Though it is notable that the Muslim communities behaved particularly well during the […]
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Is capitalism doomed? – By Nouriel Roubini – Slate Magazine
via slate.com “So Karl Marx, it seems, was partly right in arguing that globalization, financial intermediation run amok, and redistribution of income and wealth from labor to capital could lead capitalism to self-destruct (though his view that socialism would be better has proved wrong). Firms are cutting jobs because there is not enough final demand. […]
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